Understanding the impact of production, environmental exposure and age characteristics on the reliability of a population is frequently based on underlying science and empirical assessment. When there is incomplete science to prescribe which inputs should be included in a model of reliability to predict future trends, statistical model/variable selection techniques can be leveraged on a stockpi...

Background: Virtual patients (VPs) were introduced at the dental school at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in 2002. The initial adoption of the VPs was in the field of comprehensive dentistry. In 2007 a prospective longitudinal study was initiated to experiment different models for increasing the adoption and use of VPs based on Rogers’s diffusion of innovations theory. The aim of this sub-study was...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of using a decision analysis technique for the selection of an electrical generation system for remote locations. Specifically, this thesis sought to answer five research questions addressing the types of energy sources used in remote locations, the decision-making processes used to identify these sources, the types of constraints incor...

In this paper, we use the example of a successful mixedinitiative plan evaluation tool for the domain of air campaign planning to argue that the human-in-the-loop is an important feature of enterprise control systems. Our tool, called INSPECT, evaluates air campaign plans and alerts the user about inconsistencies and potential problems. A generalization of INSPECT called PSMTool is also capable...

The existence of both the Texas Supreme Court and Texas Court of Criminal Appeals makes it possible to test several important hypotheses of elections held between 1988 and 2008 using a variety of statistical tools related to the impact that subject matter jurisdiction (civil versus criminal) has on the outcomes of an election. In this comparative analysis, this article shows that the factors th...

s and papers reviewed, and papers accepted, for systematic review of 2009 H1N1 influenza and pregnancy. SME, subject matter expert. Mosby. 2009 H1N1 and pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2011. 12 American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology JULY 2011

Challenges of designing an educational game cause an ongoing debate that while one side proposes ludology as the key for a computer game, other side proposes narratology as the most important part of game environment. Ludologic attributes of games have been preferred more than narrative ones. However, results of studies attempted to reveal importance of narrative structures and storytelling for...

Previous research has shown that teachers, working in computer supported classrooms, are often unhappy with what they perceive is the diminution of their role as educators. One solution to the problem of loss of control over the teaching and learning process is to provide teachers with tools to develop their own computer-based learning environments. The investigation presented here is a case-ba...

Objective This roundtable will provide a forum for national, state, and local managers of syndromic surveillance systems to discuss how they identify, monitor, and respond to changes in the nature of their data. Additionally, this session will focus on the strengths and weakness of the syndromic surveillance systems for supporting program evaluation and trend analysis. This session will also pr...

Modeling human behavior can be complicated and expensive. To be able to reduce costs, new methodologies and tools must be developed that automate the creation of human behavior models. In this paper we describe one way to accomplish this through the use of Genetic Programming in conjunction with Context-Based Reasoning (CxBR). Context-Based Reasoning is based on the concept that humans think an...